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Notifications You Receive

Pending Payment

Cancelled Payment

If you do not want to receive payment notifications via email:

1. Click the Profile subtab of the My Account tab.

2. Click the Notifications link from the left hand menu. 

3. Find the Payment Notifications heading and clear the I receive PayPal Website 

Payments and Instant Purchase checkbox.

4. Click Save.

History

Your transaction history log ( History ) contains information about your payments. Each 

payment has one of the following statuses:

Completed: The transaction was successful and the money was credited to your account.

Cleared: The eCheck payment has cleared the sender's account and has been credited to 

your account.

Uncleared: The eCheck payment has not cleared the sender's account yet.

Downloadable Logs

Log in to your PayPal account, go to the History subtab of the My Account tab and choose 

the Download My History link in the Reporting Tools menu. Choose the Custom Date 

Rangeradio button and enter the dates of the entries you want to download, choose the type of 

file you would like to download (Comma delimited, Tab delimited, Quicken, or QuickBooks), 

and click Download History. The downloaded file contains a record of all of your payments.

Instant Payment Notification (IPN)

If you have Instant Payment Notification activated, you will receive an IPN when a payment is 

first sent, which will state the status of the payment: Completed or Pending. If the payment 

was  Pending,  you will receive another IPN when the payment clears, fails, or is denied.

To learn more about IPN, see the Order Management Integration Guide.

Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide

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